WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2012
Volume 11 Issue 298
Santa Monica Daily Press
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THE HAPPY HALLOWEEN ISSUE
Tourism bureau looks to hotels for more funding New fee would hit roughly 30 hotels in Santa Monica BY ASHLEY ARCHIBALD Daily Press Staff Writer
CITY HALL The Convention & Visitors Bureau has requested a new tax on hotel stays that would raise cash to allow the marketing organization to compete with other cities by promoting Santa Monica in new international markets. The proposal would create an assessment district that includes every hotel in Santa Monica with per-night room stays of $100 and more. The tax would go into effect Jan. SEE TAX PAGE 9
Saint John’s nurses ratify new contract BY DAILY PRESS STAFF MID-CITY Registered nurses at Saint John’s
names of the six school board candidates and Measure ES are higher than they are on the Malibu ballot, which does not include that race. The City Clerk’s office discovered the error when a Malibu voter called and compared the two documents, said Sarah Gorman, Santa Monica’s City Clerk. The supplemental pamphlets were mailed out in October. “We just want to make sure we get the message out to the Malibu vote-by-mail
Health Center voted to ratify their first collective bargaining agreement in secret ballot voting Friday and Saturday, union officials said. Key to the agreement are provisions that the nurses say will enhance patient protections, as well as economic gains, no reductions in nurses’ health coverage or pensions, and other contract protections that the nurses hope will promote quality of care and retention of experienced nurses and the recruitment of new ones. “Saint John’s RNs have come a long way in our fight for our patients and our profession practice at our hospital,” said Chris Busch, an RN at the facility and a member of the California Nurses Association bargaining team. “The new patient safety provisions and RN rights language will ensure the recruitment and retention of qualified nurses to care for our community.” Nurses worked for over a year to come to
SEE MALIBU PAGE 10
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CREEPY CRAB
Photo courtesy Santa Monica Pier Aquarium A kelp crab gets into the Halloween spirit at Heal the Bay’s Santa Monica Pier Aquarium. The crab seems to have taken a liking to the pumpkin.
City Hall sends faulty voting materials to Malibu BY ASHLEY ARCHIBALD Daily Press Staff Writer
CITY HALL City and county election officials are imploring Malibu voters to stick to their county-issued voting materials when they mark their ballots after it was discovered that numbers in Santa Monica-issued materials did not correspond to Malibu ballots. The problem is confined to two voting groups in Malibu who participate in the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District election. Vote-by-mail ballots include a voter
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guide that shows the names of candidates or measures and a corresponding number. To vote for that candidate or measure, a voter bubbles in an oval next to the number that indicates their choice. Ballot positions for the school board candidates and a local bond measure in the Santa Monica Supplemental Sample Ballot and Voter Information Pamphlet released by City Hall correspond to a Santa Monica ballot that also includes the Santa Monica City Council race. That contest appears before the school board race on the Santa Monica ballot. That means that the numbers next to the
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